"failed building wheel for twisted" in ubuntu

Question

When I run "pip install twisted" it shows "failed building wheel for twisted" How can I install "twisted" outside the virtualenv ? I'm using ubuntu 17.04 and Wheel version 0.30.0

Answer 1

I has simular issues, installing gcc solved it.

sudo apt-get install gcc

Answer 2

Try this, it worked for me.

sudo apt-get install python3-dev python-pip libxml2-dev libxslt1-dev zlib1g-dev libffi-dev libssl-dev

pip install --verbose twisted

pip install -U Channels

Answer 3

Your error says Permission Denied meaning you need to run the command using sudo:

sudo pip install twisted

Answer 4

Try this:

1.switch to the admin terminal with:

sudo -H gnome-terminal

then retry pip install twisted

Answer 5

Please check the error log, the "Permission denied" error is thrown.

You may try pip install --user twisted(recommended) or sudo pip install twisted instead.